The killers could have been caught in a day but the tragic Aarushi-Hemraj saga has slipped into the realm of frenzied speculation. In Tehelka, Harinder Baweja and Tusha Mittal sift facts from fiction:
Theories. Lie detectors on overdrive. Salacious rumours. Umpteen narco analysis tests. Arrests. News alerts and breaking news. Charges and counter-charges and the case just drags on and on. More than a month since the horrific killing of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj Banjade, the circus macabre continues.
Life could not have changed more dramatically - or tragically - for the dentist couple, Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. Till the night of May 15, Rajesh, Nupur and Aarushi lived a reasonably happy life. The father sat in his daughter’s room, surfing the net and sending e-mails out. The mother was chatting with her daughter and lingered in the 14-year-old’s room for a few minutes after Rajesh retired at about midnight.
The murder of a teenage girl in Delhi, unjustly blamed on a domestic servant, has heightened hatred and suspicion at the heart of Asia’s most class-riven society. Andrew Buncombe in The Independent:
For police in the eastern suburbs of Delhi it seemed like an open and shut case.
When the body of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar was discovered in a pool of blood, her throat cut and the family’s domestic servant nowhere to be found, detectives had only one suspect. Senior officers said they even had clues as to where the 45-year-old Nepali servant might be hiding and said that a team of officers was being dispatched to Nepal to track him down. The police saw no reason to bring in sniffer dogs, photograph the crime scene or even force open a locked door that led to a terrace despite the presence of drops of blood on the steps.
An immediate media frenzy erupted. The TV channels and newspapers were full of lurid details and unquestioningly blamed Yam Prasad Banjade, also known as Hemraj, the missing servant, for the grisly killing of the teenager. And then one day later, someone opened the terrace door and discovered Hemraj’s decomposing body lying on the floor. He too had been murdered, in the same way as Aarushi. Police were forced to reopen the murder mystery.
[Photo: The family's servant, Hemraj (below left); Aarushi's father, Rajesh Talwar (circled). Bottom left is Aarushi's mother.]
Emile Jerome Mathew, a bright Indian Navy officer, seemed to have everything going for him. So did Neeraj Grover, a successful TV producer in Mumbai. Mariah Susairaj had her sights set firmly on Bollywood. But the three got entangled in a messy love triangle, for which Grover paid with his life. The drama (put together by The Indian Express):
Mumbai/Mysore: Mariah Monica Susairaj, 27, an ambitious starlet from the quiet city of Mysore, came to Mumbai with dreams of making it big in tele-serials. She spent months on the lookout for that elusive break, till finally she met a man who held out the promise of stardom for her.
On May 21, photographs of the Kannada movie actress (photo: right) were flashed on television screens across the nation, but for all the wrong reasons - the Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch had arrested her in one of the most gruesome murder cases to have rocked the city.
With her arrest, the police claim to have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of Neeraj Amarnath Grover, a 25-year-old top executive at Synergy Adlabs who earlier worked as creative head at Balaji Telefilms. Susairaj’s confessions led the police to the skeletal remains of Grover (photo: left) in an isolated spot on the outskirts of the city, a fortnight after Grover’s father had reported him missing. Susairaj’s boyfriend from Mysore, Emile Jerome Mathew, a 25-year-old Navy lieutenant posted in Kochi, was arrested for stabbing Grover in a fit of jealousy and rage.
Nearly a fortnight after the double murders of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her family servant, Hemraj on May 16, we’re still no closer to the truth.
The Noida police — a bunch of incompetent, idiotic bumblers — claimed they had cracked the case with the arrest of Aarushi’s father, Dr Rajesh Talwar (muttering ominously and, perhaps, threateningly that the mother, Nupur Talwar was not above suspicion). But all we have is a bunch of theories; theories which change with every passing day. Here’s a quick summary:
Theory One:The father did it and it was a cold-blooded, premediated crime
Why? Dr Rajesh Talwar was having an affair; his daughter didn’t approve. She confided about this to the servant Hemraj. So, Dr Talwar killed them both.
Flaws in the theory: Dr Talwar was a doctor. If he had wanted to kill Aarushi and Hemraj, he could have used far more sophisticated methods. Also, if he had killed Hemraj up on the terrace of his building, his concern would have been to try and get rid of the body, not hide it under the cooler and then go off to sleep until 6 am when the maid arrived.
Theory promoted by: Noida police
Theory two: the father did it in the heat of the moment
Ten Questions to the Noida Police. Does anyone have any answers?
1. Does an email exchange between a father and his daughter mean that there was no communication between them, or that they had a friendly chatty style?
2. Was Aarushi involved with Hemraj or was she involved with a teenage student of her school (with whom she exchanged 600-odd emails over the past six weeks)?
3. Did Rajesh Talwar allegedly kill his daughter because he was having an affair or because she was?
4. If Rajesh Talwar was upset about his daughter’s alleged closeness to the family servant, why didn’t he just sack him?
5. If the murder was premediated, ie because Dr Talwar was upset (according to the police chargesheet) why didn’t he as a doctor plan a more sophisticated crime using, perhaps poison that might have been less easy to detect?
6. Does the police actually believe that after killing Hemraj and his own daughter, Dr Rajesh Talwar returned to his bedroom and went off to sleep until 6 am?
7. How much is the SSP’s office at Noida worth in terms of ‘hafta’? How much does it contribute to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati?
8. How much pressure was the Noida police under after Mayawati ordered them to solve the crime within three days?
9. Is the name of the victim Aarushi or Shruti?
10. How difficult is it to discover a dead body at the scene of a high profile crime?
And, one question to Indianews (which showed an MMS that it said showed Aarushi. They were lying).
Police have arrested Rajesh Talwar, the father of a teenage girl, Aarushi, in connection with her murder and that of their male servant. Arushi’s body was discovered at her house in Noida, a prosperous suburb of Delhi. The parents are well known dentists. Aarushi’s mother, Dr Nupur Talwar, spoke to NDTV:
NDTV: Nupur, this must be a very tragic time for you - your daughter is dead and your husband is in judicial custody. We understand you would not talk about the details of the case, but tell us your story.
Dr Nupur Talwar: All I can say is my life has come to an end. Aarushi and Rajesh were my life. I lost Aarushi eight days ago who was murdered in a brutal way. Rajesh doted on his daughter. It couldn’t be the way they are suggesting this. This is totally untrue.
We were such a nice family. I always used to think I must have done something good in my last life to get such a nice family. We had so many plans for her. We were planning a holiday. We were about to celebrate her birthday. Rajesh told Aarushi to call as many friends, even if it were to become expensive. I don’t know what to say. I have faith in the legal system. More than that, I have faith in God. I hope justice is done.
[Photo: Aarushi Talwar's father Rajesh and mother Nupur. PTI]
Shoddy police investigation culminating in the arrest of Dr Rajesh Talwar, the father 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar, run like a leitmotif in the aftermath of the gruesome crime. Vandana K. Mittal raises some questions in Merinews.
THE GRUESOME murder of a Noida school girl, Arushi, on Friday (May 16) has not only rattled the residents of the national capital and the surrounding areas, but also angered them at the way the police has gone about investigating this case of brutality towards an innocent girl.
As the news has flashed across the TV screens and has been reported in other media, the entire nation has gaped in utter disbelief at the shoddy and amateur manner in which the case has been handled. Each passing day has brought forth further news of the cavalier manner in which the local cops have gone about their work.
Even in the best of circumstances our police force is not known for scintillating detective work but with this case of Arushi’s murder they have set new lows. What they have missed is not the fine evidence that needs specialised equipment to detect. They have missed a whole dead body lying at the site of the crime!
Scarlett Keeling’s mother returns to India to find out why her daughter’s internal organs were removed without permission, reports The Guardian
Scarlett Keeling, 15, was found on Anjuna beach in February and police initially said that she had died from accidental drowning. Her mother, Fiona MacKeown, maintained that her daughter had been attacked and a second autopsy revealed that she had been raped and killed.
Her body was brought back to the UK for a third post mortem examination, which revealed that her uterus, kidneys and stomach were missing. Her lawyer, Vikram Varma, said she would be speaking to the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation, who are to take over the case.
From The Telegraph, UK:
The mother of murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling (Photo right) has enlisted the help of Kate and Gerry McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell.
Fiona MacKeown, a mother of eight, has been vilified in the press for leaving her 15-year-old daughter to fend for herself in the Indian resort of Anjuna in Goa while she went travelling with her other children
Mr and Mrs McCann were similarly criticised for leaving their daughter Madeleine in their holiday apartment in the Algarve on the night she disappeared while they dined with friends nearby.
Scarlett’s body was found on Anjuna beach on February 18 and although police initially claimed the teenager had accidentally drowned, it was then established she had been raped and murdered.
Scarlett Keeling left a letter asking for a funeral ‘party’ a year before she was murdered in Go
Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager murdered in Goa, wrote a letter a year before she was horrifically raped and murdered saying that she wanted her life to be celebrated when she died.
In a three-page letter the teenager poignantly questioned the meaning of life and said she wanted her short life to be celebrated rather than mourned.
Her mother Fiona MacKeown discovered the letter which had the words “READ ME” written in big letters on it shortly after she returned to the UK.
Swedish forensic experts slam the autopsies conducted on Scarlett Keeling in India. Times of India has the report.
Swedish forensic experts have said the two autopsies carried out in India on the body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling, found dead on a beach in Goa, were “absolutely illegal”.
Scarlett’s bruised and semi-naked body was found on the sea shore of Goa’s Anjuna beach just before dawn on February 18. Initially, Goa police said the 15-year-old had drowned.
When the body of Scarlett Keeling was found in Goa many believed her family’s unconventional lifestyle was to blame. In The Telegraph, UK, Cassandra Jardine meets her mother Fiona MacKeown:
A week after Fiona MacKeown (Photo: left) flew back from India with the body of her daughter Scarlett Keeling, life on her small-holding in north Devon is regaining a semblance of normality.
Children, dogs and hens are running around between half a dozen caravans, a barn and the two-storey dwelling where I find Fiona sitting, tattooed and defiant, like a New Age frontierswoman.
The expression on her fine-boned, weather-beaten face is wary but welcoming. Since Scarlett’s body was found on Anjuna beach in Goa, early on the morning of February 18, she has had reason to be both cautious of, and grateful for, the interest stirred up by her battle for justice.
In Times of India, CPM Rajya Sabha MP, Brinda Karat on the Scarlett Keeling murder being raked up in Parliament
The Scarlett Keeling case has received a great deal of attention. In Rajya Sabha, there was a sharp exchange of views on the case. A view expressed in Parliament that it was the responsibility of parents to take care of the security of their children finds resonance among some people. Indeed, the Goa government and its spokespersons have projected the case as a tragedy caused by bad parenting. They have said that if the mother had been more responsible, if the victim had been a “good girl”, then… more
Finally, a 1999 murder case gets closure. The court rules that R.K. Sharma, a suspended Inspector General of Police is guilty for the murder of Indian Express journalist Shivani Sharma. Tushar Srivastava in the Hindustan Times on how the former top cop’s defense collapsed.
The Shivani Bhatnagar murder case was as big a challenge for the media covering the case as it was for the cops. Both had one from their fraternity involved in it.
Shivani was a Principal Correspondent with the Indian Express. Ravi Kant Sharma was a 1976 batch IPS officer. The case was a potent mix of intrigue, deception, lies and having an investigative journalist and an IPS officer in its lead roles.
The case hit the headlines once again when in July 2002, the Delhi Police crime branch cracked the case and made the first arrest. What followed was a cat and mouse game between the cops and Sharma who were on his trail.
And, on the low conviction rates in high profile crime cases because witnesses turn hostile, India enews has a report
More and more criminal cases in recent times have seen witnesses turning hostile. In the trial relating to the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar in New Delhi nine years ago, of the 209 witnesses examined 51 turned hostile.
The prosecution had initially submitted to the court a list of 250 witnesses but during the course of the hearings over the past nine years it dropped 41 witnesses. ‘This has become a trend now. Witnesses, especially in high-profile cases, turn silent when they appear in court for their final statements,’ said advocate K.K. Sood, a lawyer specialising in criminal cases.
Namita Bhandare in Mint on the death of Scarlette Keeling, and the lessons we can learn from it
The life and death of Scarlette Keeling has left in its wake a media feeding frenzy. To be sure, the rape and murder of the British teenager goes beyond your average “sansani” (sensational) crime story: There’s the sun and sand of “idyllic” Goa, a heady concoction of drugs and alcohol, a botched police cover-up, accusations of a powerful drug cartel with political links and, finally, the apparently freewheeling lifestyle of Scarlette’s mother Fiona MacKeown.
I have nothing but contempt for stories that focus on Fiona’s past escapades, lifestyle and lovers. I unequivocally agree with Brinda Karat who said in Parliament last week that you cannot victimize the victim.
In The Sunday Times, UK, Dean Nelson meets Fiona MacKeown:
It is hard to classify MacKeown. Her children’s names - including Merlin, Kisangel, Isis Celeste and Trinity Willow - suggest mellow hippiedom. But she defines herself as a gypsy; when she sought planning permission to put caravans on her land she was backed by the Romany council. She is unconventional but when she says she was naive rather than negligent, I believe her. Those who have seen her with her children were struck by how bright, well mannered and affectionate they are.
With her brood of children, MacKeown would receive about £25,000 a year in benefits. In order to pay for the Goan holiday she told me she had saved £200 a week for months by living frugally - buying only rice to supplement the family’s home-grown vegetables and buying clothes for the children only from charity shops. Eventually they had about £7,000 for the trip, topped up by selling a pony for £1,000. It was a tiny budget for a six-month holiday once the flights for nine had been paid for.
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent’s Asia correspondent, on his blog Asian (con)Fusion:
Last week, at a cafe in Anjuna Beach that specialises in organic food, the mother of Scarlett Keeling showed me some photographs that I didn’t really want to see.
The photographs were taken during the first post-mortem tests carried out on Scarlett and unlike the written report itself, the photographs revealed the true extent of the teenager’s injuries. The pictures showed a huge bruise above one eye, a series of bruises on her legs and shins, red marks around the genital area and, most shocking of all, a picture of Scarlett’s face.
Because police claimed they did know who she was when her body was found, the pathologists had cut open her face to enable access to her teeth and to take a dental imprint to obtain her identity. They had then crudely sewn it back up. What was left looked like an horrendous, clown-like smile stitched across the teenager’s face.
As Fiona Mackeown, mother of Scarlett Keeling, the 15-year-old British teenager murdered on Goa’s beach on February 18, demands a high-level inquiry, Amanda Merritt, whose brother died there, tells why she’s convinced he was killed too. In Timesonline, UK:
After a year of trying to piece together what had happened to her brother, Merritt has recently succeeded in persuading the Indian police to reinvestigate his death. At first - like Scarlett - he was dismissed as just another hedonistic tourist. But Merritt believes he was targeted and killed by members of Goa’s criminal underworld.
Stephen, who had travelled alone in Asia several times as part of a masters degree in Chinese theatre studies, had been taking a December holiday alone in Goa and intended to be away for two weeks. He planned to spend Christmas with his two daughters and had already wrapped their presents.
On December 12 his body was found hanging from a tree, a woman’s sari around his neck, in a village 200 miles from Goa.
Drug dealers blamed for rising death toll in India’s hippy paradise
Jeremy Page in The Times, UK:
Since the 1960s, when the first hippies arrived with their tie-dye and LSD, Goa has been renowned for its pristine beaches, cosmopolitan atmosphere and plentiful supply of narcotics.
But the suspected rape and murder of Scarlett Keeling, a 15-year-old British girl found dead last month on the famous Anjuna beach, has now shattered the Indian state’s reputation as a “hippy paradise”, free of worldly evils.
Goan officials and many long term foreign residents were quick to blame Fiona MacKeown, Scarlett’s mother, for leaving her alone in Anjuna. They insist that the place is no more dangerous than other popular beach resorts.
A British man has told The Times that he saw an Indian barman apparently sexually assaulting Scarlett Keeling less than two hours before the 15-year-old British girl’s half-naked body was found on a beach in Goa.
The witness, who asked not to be identified, said that the attack took place after Scarlett left Lui’s bar on Anjuna Beach high on a cocktail of LSD, Ecstasy and cocaine at 5am on February 18.
The man suspected of raping Scarlett Keeling, a 15-year-old British teenager found dead on Goa’s Anjuna beach on February 18, appeared in the local Goa court wearing a police hood. But Scarlett’s mother says she is not at all convinced that Samson D’Souza, the 26-year-old barman who worked at Lui’s Bar and was seen with Scarlett on the day she died, is the right man. She wants the country’s premier investigating agency to take over the case.
The case has rocked Indian and British media, following allegations of a police cover-up by Scarlett’s mother, Fiona MacKeown who refused to accept an initial post-mortem report that concluded that her daughter had drowned. Fiona has maintained all along that her daughter had been raped and murdered, pointing to the bruises and cuts on her body.
A second post mortem was ordered and found that Scarlett had indeed died of drowning. Significantly, it didn’t rule out homicide.
Meanwhile, media attention has also focused on Fiona MacKeown who left her 15-year-old daughter behind with the family of the local tour guide she had befriended. Fiona, her boyfriend and six other children headed off to a beach in the neighbouring state of Karnataka, leaving Scarlett behind in Goa. In the Daily Mail, Tom Rawstorne reports that Fiona is clear that she is not to blame
It was meant to be great family adventure - then 15-year-old Scarlett MacKeown was left alone by her mother in Goa. Days later she was dead. Murder… or a drunken accident? Here, her mother insists SHE wasn’t at fault.
As she tearfully retraced her teenage daughter’s last steps, Fiona MacKeown’s eye was caught by an object lying on the edge of the dusty track. It was a leather sandal — nothing special — but its discovery started a chain of events that has sent shockwaves through a part of the world still regarded by some as a corner of paradise.
Fiona knew at once that the shoe belonged to her daughter, 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling, whose body had been found on a nearby beach three days earlier.
And is time running out for ‘tourist paradise’ Goa? Andrew Buncombe in The Morung Express reports from Anjuna
From his vantage point on a cushion in Anjuna’s German Bakery and Café, Thomas Keller smiled nostalgically as he recalled first coming to Goa more than three decades ago. “It was 1974,” said the wiry 53-year-old from Denmark. “[Then] it was serious hard-core hippies. Now everybody can come and go.” And that may be the problem for Goa. When people like Mr Keller first arrived, they came overland, down the hippy trail that wound from Turkey through Iran and Afghanistan to this tiny former Portuguese enclave on India’s western coast. They were few enough in number to blend in among the coastal villages, and if they were in a blissed-out haze on marijuana or hash a lot of the time, nobody minded too much.
Finally, local Goa newspaper Navhind Times pays tribute to Fiona MacKeown in an editorial:
Goa police have started investigations along a new line into the death of the 15-year-old British girl Scarlett Keeling, but the loss that the state government and police - and collectively all of us Goans - have suffered during the three weeks in terms of image cannot be made up, no matter what we do. The adverse publicity we have got has not only damaged tourism but also our reputation as a state that can take up a case in the right earnest - without hiding or suppressing or manipulating facts - and go straight after the accused. How great a gratitude we owe to the mother of Scarlett, Fiona Mackeown! It was her tireless and determined fight for bringing the guilty to book that rocked the international and Indian media and forced the state government to take immediate steps to ensure fair play and justice to the deceased girl and her family.
Via sajaforum.org: Long after the media lights have dimmed, Anish Majumdar of Little India, an Indian publication in the United States, visits the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge where two Indian PhD students were murdered in December, 2007.
In the laundromat of Lousiana State University’s Edward Gay Apartments complex in Baton Rouge is a small stool on which sits a simple clay pot. The sole flower in the potted plant has already wilted. Tacked to the wall above it is a rudimentary paper sign pasted over aluminum foil, a valiant effort no doubt to create the effect of a plaque - of sorts.
It reads simply, “In Memory of: Kiran and Komma.” The modest memorial is the sole visible reminder of a gruesome double homicide in the building that had attracted national media attention just one month earlier.
On Dec. 13, 2007, the last day of final exams, two suspects broke into the family housing complex, Edward Gay Apartments on campus and brutally murdered two doctoral students from Andhra Pradesh, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam.
And in The New York Times, a report by Amelia Gentleman:
As the anesthetic wore off, Naseem Mohammed said, he felt an acute pain in the lower left side of his abdomen. Fighting drowsiness, he fumbled beneath the unfamiliar folds of a green medical gown and traced his fingers over a bandage attached with surgical tape. An armed guard by the door told him that his kidney had been removed.
A woman president. A woman who heads the country’s oldest political party. And yet, women in India have a bad deal. A study on violence against women by Yogendra Yadav and Sanjay Kumar published in The Indian Express.
You don’t need a survey to find out that women feel insecure in this country. You just need to take a walk in the evening. You don’t need numbers to see that domestic violence against women is widespread. You just need to look into their eyes, perhaps yours. Yet this realisation is not enough to devise a strategy to combat this violence. You need to understand the anatomy of violence — where, how and why of violence against women — to begin to think about countering this violence.
From: President Richard Brodhead <president-announce@duke.edu>
Date: January 21, 2008 10:36:10 PM EST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: A Message to the Duke Community from President Brodhead
Dear Member of the Duke University Community,
I write to share my great sadness over the sudden and senseless death of Abhijit Mahato, a graduate student in the Pratt School of Engineering, who was murdered in his off-campus apartment this weekend. Having spoken with Professor Tod Laursen, in whose lab Abhijit was making important contributions, I have a sense of his great promise and endearing character. I extend my sympathy to Abhijit’s friends and colleagues and to all members of the Indian and Hindu community for this appalling loss. A celebration of his life will be held in Duke Chapel later this week. Read the rest of this entry »
CNN-IBN’sArunima spoke to Bilkis Bano after a special CBI court sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment for rape
It seems justice may finally have been delivered in one of the most shocking cases of the post Godhra riots. The special CBI court on Monday sentenced 11 people to double life imprisonment for rape in the Bilkis Bano case.
Bilkis says she knows she’s won a landmark judgement, but the battle has only just begun. CNN-IBN’s Arunima spoke to Bilkis after the verdict.
Arunima:Has justice been done?
Bilkis Bano: Justice has been delivered six years later. Eleven people have been sentenced but the policemen involved have gone scot free. So my struggle will continue will they are punished.
Arunima:Was it a lonely battle?
Bilkis Bano: A lot of people helped me. They encouraged me not to give up, not to get scared and continue the fight. Without them I couldn’t have achieved this.
Arunima:Do you feel safe about your child’s future in Gujarat?
Bilkis Bano: I want my children to have proper education, a good upbringing and a peaceful life.
Mail Today has a package on the Bilkis Bano rape case, with interviews and comments. Hartosh Singh Bal compares her with Zaheera Shaikh.
The Bilkis Bano case may well become the benchmark for how cases related to the Gujarat riots need to be handled. After the Best Bakery case, Bilkis’ story was perhaps symbolic of the quest for justice in the state. The similarities in the two cases are obvious — a young woman who is the key witness to murder by rioting mobs, and the delay and the frustration of obtaining justice till the Supreme Court intervenes and ensures the case is heard in Mumbai. more
And, this is the report
Justice came on Friday for Bilkis Yakoob Rasool alias Bilkis Bano — survivor and living reminder of Gujarat’s post-Godhra communal carnage. A sessions court in Mumbai held 13 of the 20 accused, including an assistant police inspector, guilty of gang-raping Bano, who was five-month pregnant then, and murdering 14 members of her family in 2002.
A constable in a sweat-stained undershirt and checkered blue sarong lays a ragged cloth over a patch of mud. He jerks open the back door of a decrepit Indian-made Tata Sumo SUV - what passes for an evidence locker at this rustic police outpost in the Indian state of West Bengal. A hundred human skulls tumble out onto the cloth, making a hollow clatter as they fall to the ground. They’ve lost most of their teeth bouncing around the back of the truck. Bits of bone and enamel scatter like snowflakes around the growing pile.
Standing next to the truck, the ranking officer smiles and lets out a satisfied grunt. “Now you can see how big the bone business is here,” he says. I crouch down and pick up a skull. It’s lighter than I expected. I hold it up to my nose. It smells like fried chicken.
Before the authorities intercepted it, this cache was moving along a well-established pipeline for human skeletal remains. For 150 years, India’s bone trade has followed a route from remote Indian villages to the world’s most distinguished medical schools.
Kalpana Sharma takes a reality check on the New Year eve incident in Mumbai
When 70 to 80 men surround two women, push them, touch them, pounce on them, it is not “molestation”; it is sexual assault. So before we even begin to discuss the incident that took place in the upmarket Mumbai suburb of Juhu in the early hours of January 1, 2008, we should call the crime by its real name.
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